Chilly Fish

Last weekend some of our friends came over all the way from Colombus.I knew how they all loved fish and so prepared this chilly fish and shrimp fried rice to go along with it.The recipe is from Mrs.K.M Mathew’s Malayala Pachakam.

Chilly Fish

I’ve used King fish here,but you can use any fish of your choice.

Here’s the recipe..

Ingredients:-

Fish pieces – 1 kg
(If you are using whole fish,clean it and make some slits over it.This will help the masalas to penetrate inside)

Apply the marinate on the fish pieces and allow it to stand for 2 hrs preferrably in a refrigerator.Then deep fry it in Peanut oil.( I didn’t have peanut oil,and so i used vegetable oil itself).
Heat little oil in another pan and fry the red chillies till brown.Remove them from pan,and pound them to a coarse powder. Keep it aside.In the remaining oil,add onion,ginger and garlic and saute them until onion turn translucent.Now add chilly powder,chopped tomato and ketchup and saute them till oil starts to seperate.Mix fish broth,vineger,corn flour, ajinomotto and salt together and pour the mixture into the sauteed masala.Allow it to boil for a while,and when the gravy starts to thicken throw in capsicum and celery.Simmer for 2-3 minutes.Now add the reserved red chilly powder ,and mix it well.

Arrange the fish pieces neatly in a serving powl.Pour the prepared sauce over it.Garnish with spring onion greens and serve hot.

Good recipe…… but how do you make the fried rice? Like Chinese fried rice? Do you have to saute the shrimps before adding it to the rice? Is it ok to use cleaned, frozen shrimps for this?
Jyothsna.

Yes..Jyotsna..I prepared it like Chineese fried rice only..As you said,saute onion first ,then add cooked shrimps , saute it for a while,then veggies ,sauces and finally the rice.I’ve used frozen cooked shrimp for this.Hope this helps..
Annita

I was a bit miserable today and I needed to eat..something that I am familiar..( my only way to cope with stress is to eat, something I like.).. I have so far visited all my regular food blogs searching for something too cook and when i saw the title in your blog.. All I could say was bingo… U hv no idea..how much u hv helped me. Thanks
Sarah

Many many thanks Sarah.I’m also really happy to see your comment in my blog.Pls let me know whether you’ve liked it or not.
Annita

mithusaid

Just wanted to thank you for posting this recipe. My wife and I tried this the other day, and it came out really well. For the most part, we followed your instructions, but we made the following changes:
1. We didn’t use ajinomotto and corn flour
2. Like you, we used vegetable oil instead of peanut oil
2. We made the fish broth by boiling a couple of fish pieces in water and salt, and then mincing the boiled pieces into bits with a spoon. I don’t know if this step is necessary since you were successful despite skipping this step.

We’re planning to try the same recipe with shrimp instead of fish, and will post our results here.

Deepa Sudhirsaid

Hi Anita,
Not sure whether u remember me… I was there with u in CUSAT(CS). Hope ur family is doing great!
Went through the recipe… Have a doubt… For the marination, i have seen people adding conflour, maida and soya sauce… Do u think this would give a new look to the recipe?

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Jen Dassaid

I’ve used this recipe at least 4 times. It’s a keeper and we do not have it with fried rice but I am going to try that next time. We usually just have basmati (and I know jasmine would be better but dh loves basmati!). Thanks so much. I am going to check out other recipes as well. Can always use new ideas!
Jen Das

Lakshmy Ranjithsaid

From one of my friends I came to know about your blog. I tried your chilli fish recipe. It came well. It is a very tastey recipe, suits with plain rice too….I am planning to try this recipe with fried rice.Thank you Anitha for the recipe.

I am sure that while searching for new recipes I will hit your blog first……